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The META-USO connection
Full text linkC.H. Doevendans, J. Verbeke, J. Petric, N. de Meijere 2003. The METAUSO connection. USO-Built Report Series 2:35-40. The META university, stablished in 2000, facilitates international collaboration at the Master-level. Since September 2003 the Doctor Phase has been added to the Bologna process. Universities now offer (at least) 3 levels of education: Bachelor, Master and Doctor. Joint degrees and joint education of the advanced levels (Master & Doctor) is one of the measures to increase quality and employability of young professionals and researchers. In this set-up the META-university is the place to develop and plan courses, while USO-Built
is in essence a research school. Questions to be answered include: (i) How may these 2 initiatives strengthen each other?, and (ii) How should the collaboration be organized
The META-USO connection
No full textC.H. Doevendans, J. Verbeke, J. Petric, N. de Meijere 2003. The METAUSO connection. USO-Built Report Series 2:35-40. The META university, stablished in 2000, facilitates international collaboration at the Master-level. Since September 2003 the Doctor Phase has been added to the Bologna process. Universities now offer (at least) 3 levels of education: Bachelor, Master and Doctor. Joint degrees and joint education of the advanced levels (Master & Doctor) is one of the measures to increase quality and employability of young professionals and researchers. In this set-up the META-university is the place to develop and plan courses, while USO-Built is in essence a research school. Questions to be answered include: (i) How may these 2 initiatives strengthen each other?, and (ii) How should the collaboration be organized
USO-Built Graduate School
No full textUSO-Built is a distributed Graduate Research School under the CLUSTER (www.cluster.org) umbrella with its own aim, high-quality research and educational programs. It focuses on teaching research at the PhD and MPhil-level, concerns the technological domains of science aiming at balanced and implicit sustainability (= integral sustainability perceived as a normal quality of design) for the Built Environment in its fullest sense, indoor and
outdoor, and is directly USer-Oriented (USO). The environment is viewed as a technological and designed environment with major influence on quality of life. From the
design point of view the space of everyday, the environment of most people’s lives, is
the focus of USO-Built. From an organisational point of view the School is a structured
network with bottom-up research processes and top-down steering to harmonize cultural and intersectoral diversities. The School has been established in May 2001, and is coordinated by the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Although the SWOT analysis shows a promising future, much work is still to be done to obtain a sustainable joint research school
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
The four dimensions of understanding
No full textResearch of built environments is both broad and fragmented, and lacks a common goal. Implicit knowledge is highly developed, leaving explicit knowledge behind. By recognizing
the function and need of all research traditions to understand built environments: natural and technical sciences, social sciences and humanities, we could describe this understanding in 4 dimensions: intentional, structural, functional and instrumental. Using this model could strengthen explicit knowledge development
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
High-resolution Rayleigh-wave velocity maps of central Europe from a dense ambient-noise data set
No full textWe present a new database of surface wave group and phase-velocity dispersion curves derived from seismic ambient noise, cross-correlating continuous seismic recordings from the Swiss Network, the German Regional Seismological Network (GRSN), the Italian national broad-band network operated by the Istituto Nazionale di Geosica e Vulcanologia (INGV). To increase the aperture of the station array, additional measurements from the Mediterranean Very Broad-band Seismographic Network (MedNet), the Austrian Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), the French, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian and Greek stations obtained through Orfeus are also included. The ambient noise, we are using to assemble our database, was recorded at the above-mentioned stations between 2006 January and 2006 December. Correlating continuous signal recorded at pairs of stations, allows to extract coherent surface wave signal travelling between the two stations. Usually the ambient-noise cross-correlation technique allows to have informations at periods of 30 s or shorter. By expanding the database of noise correlations, we seek to increase the resolution of the central Europe crustal model
Italian and Alpine three-dimensional crustal structure imaged by ambient-noise surface-wave dispersion
No full textWe derive the 3-D crustal structure (S wave velocity) underneath Italy and the Alpine region, expanding and exploiting the database of ambient noise Rayleigh-wave phase- and group-velocity of Verbeke et al. (2012). We first complement the database of Verbeke et al. (2012) with a dense set of new ambient-noise-based phase-velocity observations. We next conduct a suite of linear least squares inversion of both phase- and group-velocity data, resulting in 2-D maps of Rayleigh-wave phase and group velocity at periods between 5 and 37 s. At relatively short periods, these maps clearly reflect the surface geology of the region, e.g., low velocity zones at the Po Plain; at longer periods, deeper structures such as Moho topography under Alps and Apennines, and lower-crust anomalies are revealed. Our phase- and group-velocity models are next inverted via the Neighbourhood Algorithm to determine a set of one-dimensional shear-velocity models (one per phase/group-velocity pixel), resulting in a new three-dimensional model of shear velocity (v(S)) parameterized in the same way as the European reference crustal model EPcrust. We also show how well v(S) is constrained by phase and group dispersion curves. The model shows the low velocity area beneath the Po Plain and the Molasse basin; the contrast between the low-velocity crust of the Adriatic domain and the high-velocity crust of the Tyrrhenian domain is clearly seen, as well as an almost uniform crystalline crust beneath the Alpine belt. Our results are discussed from the geological/geodynamical standpoint, and compared to those of other, interdisciplinary studies
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